A few days back I had a friend and her husband drop in at my house. They wanted to have a discussion on the changes taking place in the current education system, schools in particular. They believed that the current schooling system was more productive than the one that existed in their time.
I could not deny the fact that most of us use our schooling system as a benchmark for measuring our kids’ schooling. However, there is no scientific proof that this formula would work. This led to a rather long debate, albeit a constructive one between us three.
I argued that information availability in our days was not as easy and quick as it is today. Children, now can have all the information they need within seconds, thanks to the Internet. This, however, was not the case when we were in school. We had to browse through the pages of thick books to get the information that we required.
Personal Learning was a ‘thing of the future’ when we were young. Online Tutoring, or web based tutoring, today offers students with the flexibility to choose their own study hours. Real-time learning, in our days, meant learning at school or under the guidance of a private tutor. Today things have undergone a drastic change. Technological advancements have made ‘real-time’ learning a simple and affordable affair.
While my friends assumed that the process of integration of knowledge is ‘social’ in nature, I believe that it’s more of a personal process. Parents are increasingly providing their children with new avenues of learning. We must understand that what we learned in school might not be adequate for children today. Parents and educators have the responsibility to provide children with intelligent and interactive learning tools that can lead them to a successful future.
Online tutoring can prove to be an aid to existing schooling. One of the greatest advantages of online tutoring is that it does not require children to carry a number of textbooks with them. Moreover, it provides immediate feedback on your child’s performance. Schools cannot customize a lesson to suit the needs of ever single child. This is not the case with online learning. While schools focus on the ‘macroscopic factors’, online tutoring is all about accessing the ‘microscopic elements’ of education.
The whole round of debate between the three of us was quite productive. We unanimously agreed that we should strive to make education a more interactive and interesting process for our children.
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